What Is Politics?

[Guest Logik]

I would like a few examples of what you guys n girls this politics is?

What is Politics?

answer can be as long as you want.

also please take this test

http://www.moral-politics.com/xpolitics.aspx?menu=Home

let me know the results... But im guessing I know the majority of them already

Edited September 27, 2009 by Logik

[Hughie Green]

A load of shite

[ratdog]

According to the Collins English dictionary;

Any activity concerned with the acquisition of power

I think that sums it up for me.

[Culchi]

It's the "one law fits all" scenario, unless you're a politician or member of the Royal family, in which case you get diplomatic immunity.

[Guest Logik]

take this test too

http://www.moral-politics.com/xpolitics.aspx?menu=Home

[Eddiesilence]

I know what it isn't, and that's equally important. Real politics isn't some bloke in a bland suit talking about 'deficits', or 'balance of payments' or somesuch smokescreen on Newsnight. News produced for 'the consumer' or 'the voter' is about distractions, misdirection and PR: you don't hoist the real truth up a flagpole for everyone to see!

[Hughie Green]

You scored -6.5 on Moral Order and 3.5 on Moral Rules.

The following categories best match your score (multiple responses are possible):

1. System: Socialism

2. Ideology: Activism

3. Party: No match.

4. Presidents: Jimmy Carter

5. 04' Election: David Cobb

6. 08' Election: Dennis Kucinich

Of the 565,757 respondents (10,122 on Facebook):

1. 2% are close to you.

2. 84% are more conservative.

3. 1% are more liberal.

4. 1% are more socialist.

5. 12% are more authoritarian.

[Herbal Kint]

Its nothing just a made up turm for hungry off power can have a legal position and run so called democratic sistem that exsist only on paper IMO.

We need a global depolitization folowed with deratization!

Check please,my little brain will explode just thinking off the stuff .

Edited September 27, 2009 by Herbal Kint

[Mugwuffin]

'Politics is only manifest in the form of problems. Where there are no problems there are no politics. So we can define politics as the working of political problems. A political problem is a problem which would go away if ignored' - often 'political problems' are generated from a 'real' problem but people soon forget the real problem as it's overclouded by the political problem.

[nb1]

Control - oppression = :!:

[lazi]

Politics does have its place, we don't get to hear much about the wars that were averted due to politicians. What we have a real problem with is bloated beaurocracy and getting people to sort that is like getting turkeys to vote for christmas.

[Father McPot]

It's funny how a lot of folk think politics and politicians are the same thing – when someone says 'politics', they think 'self-serving fuckers in suits'. Politicians are just one small part of the whole topic of politics. If someone says 'drug use', then some folks might automatically think of the people who sleep on the streets and beg for money. These people are just one area under the topic of 'drug use'. The reason, I reckon, some think of politicians when politics is mention is that politicians are the most commonly discussed (on the tv, on the radio, in the newspapers) and probably one of the most important parts of the topic of politics. I don't think there is one definition for politics, but there might be definitions for some of it's sub-categories.

(Not sure if I've made my point clear enough, probably come back later and edit it.)

[Guest grandad]

politics comes from the greek word polis, meaning state or city.

[Eddiesilence]

I think you're right Father McPot. It's a vast subject concerning how to govern and how to live alongside other people. (which is nicely exemplified by grandad's definition above). Often, we meet those who declare "absolutely no interest in politics", but they are interested in their pay packet, in their working conditions, in the schooling given to their kids, in the price of gas, lecky, fags and booze, and in the tax that they pay. They are very political people indeed, but they don't see it because politics is disguised as 'life'.

Most of us are inherently political, but the majority of us don't realise it because the most common mis-definition of politics we seem to have is something like this: "the guy in the bland suit who represents business interests arguing against the guy in the bland suit who represents business interests."

Edited September 27, 2009 by Eddiesilence

[chewable_madness]

YOUR SCORE

Your scored -4 on Moral Order and 2 on Moral Rules.

The following categories best match your score (multiple responses are possible):

1. System: Socialism

2. Ideology: Social Democratism

3. Party: No match.

4. Presidents: Jimmy Carter

5. 04' Election: David Cobb

6. 08' Election: Barrack Obama